So much ****** here, where do I even start. Qx is not a raise on that flop in theory, and I'm sure you would never actually do that anyway because you are isolating yourself vs better hands. As an exploit its ok 200bb deep vs semi fish but still not the best line imo.

You then state that A is a good card for his range, which should mean its 100% exploit bet, yet you checked which is of course criminal 200bb deep vs anyone especially semi fish. You should be betting turn setting up river jam vs AQ/AK. You don't even know how to value bet trips vs fish, christ.

"which should mean it's 100% exploit bet"


el oh ****ing el

This is how bena makes 17 extra coffees though, I'd say it's pretty high reward

bena is not one of the top 500z regs

you've played so much with 500z regs you would know

yeah, should bet $6 or something in there
I always miss bena's special attack, but need so much balls to pull that off lol

Wishing for ur heater to never end bro keep going

No ***** clue what's going on itt atm but keep on grinding and gl!!!

Tbh I wouldnt mind hitting a downswing, just wouldnt like to hit a major one that would send me back to 100z. Learning a lot atm at 200z.

I ve been playing low volume, this leak of not feeling well when winning is so bad. I dont feel I deserve all that money at all. Since I was a kid Ive never enjoyed winning as much as other kids. Some parents love to see their kids winning and being a super star of the game, my parents only went to school to take me out of detention lol. So I think that kind of stuff is probably the cause I dont like winning. My school would also gave medals for anyone who played the "school olympics", it wouldnt matter if you got in first or last.

Imo that kind of stuff is so bad for the development of a kid.

You seem quite humble actually, pretty annoying people are saying it on a heater even though you probably are, it’s nice to see you’re winning actually hope you keep Cushing and prove everyone wrong

I don't understand how someone being on a heater is a bad thing, it's funny here on 2p2 when microstakers see someone who's on a heater they say it's temporary and he's going bust after that, when someone's on a downswing they're not running bad, oh no they're just losing players

can't win here, everybody lose

Yeah, people dont like seeing other people have success because they think that it reduces their own victories, like if we were on a race or something. Sure, its quite common to see people go on heaters post here and leave after a downswing, but that wont make you better(or look better).

A lot of people in poker think theyre way better than they are, just look at 25z where a lot of people curse each other in chat and say people are bad. Recently I saw the most absurd thing in a stream, the streamer had Clanty marked as a bad reg. Clanty has a lot to teach to that guy. One thing I do pretty well is to try to learn from my opponents, even if theyre marked as regfish. Most people arent humble enough to realize the good plays by their opponents, they just want to think theyre awesome and that the only reasom they lose is because of luck.

Btw, that leak is even more common in mtt regs, a lot of mtt guys join 50z/100z/200z and really think theyre winning. Theres one brazillian mtt reg that I respect a,lot that does the opposite: he plays 25z a,lot, while he made more than 1m online and plays 10k,mtts. When I quit poker he was playing a lot of 25z, 4 years later I saw him there and played a lot vs him and never seen him playing higher.

Its so insane to see a guy that realizes he should be playing 25z to learn 100bb poker(and 40bb too, he never reloads) even when the money is super small compared to his usual stakes. Then we see guys like mirage and tasttyy thinking theyre the best in the world, trolling benabadbeats thread, when he is probably one of the biggest winners in poker in todays games.

Hey I just complimented you, wa da deal

You know what Rapidesh, I've been following your thread from your first post but never felt the need to comment. I do follow many and don't comment at all. It's unbelievable, your attitude. Off late you seem to have developed the most thickest of skins especially whne it comes to mirages posts. You just seem to look at the strat part of his response and you respond back. Kudos to that bro. I'm of the firm belief that mirage is trolling and is prolly a really nice guy in person. But whatever that isn't the point. You've done pretty well. Have taken to feedback really well. And xeno last post sums up the attitude of most posters here quite nicely. Good luck mate! Officially subbing to what I think is gonna be a legendary thread.! In.

thanks, man!
Yeah, it's amazing to see how my view of poker changed since I started this thread, if you go back to the first posts, I used to be quite similar to how tasttyy and mirage are today. I was sunrunning at the time and thought I was very good, and when the downswing came, I did my best to improve rather than blaming luck.

what's your sn?

Games were crazy tonight, g-zuz, probably ended up losing

Some hands

H1: Don't know if this is good, the problem here is that I don't have that many slowplays OTT, most of my good hands are betting, and a lot are check-raising turn for value vs that sizing. What do you think? flop cbet is quite bad too, I think it's better to check without a spade.

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 117.95 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 101.5 BB
UTG: 42 BB
MP: 61.73 BB
CO: 123.71 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 8

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) A 4 7
Hero bets 1.89 BB, BB calls 1.89 BB

Turn: (9.77 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, BB bets 3.06 BB, Hero calls 3.06 BB

River: (15.89 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, BB bets 10.15 BB, Hero raises to 92.06 BB and is all-in, BB calls 81.91 BB



H2: vs weird reg, wtf should I do here? My thinking behind that was that his line was so weird that he had to be tilted(or have AA) lol. decided to call because of the equity of my backdoors

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 105.13 BB
BB: 758.42 BB
UTG: 106.19 BB
MP: 806.83 BB
CO: 84.25 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 A

fold, MP raises to 2.49 BB, fold, Hero raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, MP raises to 18 BB, Hero calls 10 BB

Flop: (37.5 BB, 2 players) 6 8 A
MP bets 82 BB, Hero calls 82 BB and is all-in

Turn: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 3

River: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 9
Players agreed to run it twice.

Turn #2: (201.5 BB, 2 players) J

River #2: (201.5 BB, 2 players) T




H3: vs reg, this was the most wtf spot I had recently, do you guys have any idea of how to play it? I decided to fold because villain was nitty

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 200.11 BB
SB: 100.75 BB
BB: 439.53 BB
Hero (UTG): 100 BB
MP: 77.91 BB
CO: 212 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 A

Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, fold, SB calls 1.82 BB, BB calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (6.96 BB, 3 players) 6 6 5
SB bets 3.31 BB, BB calls 3.31 BB, Hero raises to 11.9 BB, fold, BB raises to 23.69 BB, Hero calls 11.8 BB

Turn: (57.65 BB, 2 players) 9
BB bets 27.76 BB, fold

BB wins 56.27 BB


H4: vs good reg, is this play fine by him? I think it's quite spewy, but see the merits of that play

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 227.57 BB
SB: 122.88 BB
BB: 117.7 BB
UTG: 380.72 BB
Hero (MP): 100 BB
CO: 56.78 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K Q

UTG raises to 2.22 BB, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls 4.78 BB

Flop: (15.5 BB, 2 players) T 3 2
UTG checks, Hero bets 4.88 BB, UTG raises to 18 BB, Hero raises to 93 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 75 BB

Turn: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 5

River: (201.5 BB, 2 players) J
Players agreed to run it twice.

Turn #2: (201.5 BB, 2 players) K

River #2: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 5



H5: vaaaamoooo! Should I just jam? I don't know how fish react to that, from my experience they're more likely to fold facing a jam, guy wasn't a whale, just a semifish

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 189.75 BB
Hero (BB): 106.5 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 118.73 BB
CO: 354.2 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 7

UTG raises to 2.25 BB, fold, CO calls 2.25 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.25 BB

Flop: (7.25 BB, 3 players) 2 4 K
Hero checks, UTG checks, CO bets 3.45 BB, Hero calls 3.45 BB, UTG calls 3.45 BB

Turn: (17.59 BB, 3 players) 9
Hero checks, UTG checks, CO checks

River: (17.59 BB, 3 players) A
Hero checks, UTG checks, CO bets 16.71 BB, Hero raises to 66.82 BB, fold, CO calls 50.12 BB




H6: feelsbadman! Wp by both, right?

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 181.07 BB
SB: 100.5 BB
BB: 263.37 BB
Hero (UTG): 100.7 BB
MP: 113.85 BB
CO: 122.2 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K Q

Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, BTN calls 2.32 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (6.14 BB, 2 players) 2 J 6
Hero checks, BTN bets 1.93 BB, Hero raises to 7 BB, BTN calls 5.08 BB

Turn: (20.14 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 14.35 BB, BTN calls 14.35 BB

River: (48.84 BB, 2 players) A
Hero bets 35.6 BB, BTN calls 35.6 BB




H7: Vs unknown(that was probably a fish), is my line ok here? I'm trying to maximize vs fish in those spots, something I'm not that good at doing, I'm so nitty that thought about folding after his min 3-bet lol. But after I raise flop, have to stack off vs him, right?

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 99.9 BB
BB: 53.41 BB
UTG: 100 BB
Hero (MP): 101.07 BB
CO: 147.03 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 9

fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) 6 4 8
BB bets 2 BB, Hero raises to 10.89 BB, BB raises to 19.77 BB, Hero raises to 98.75 BB and is all-in, BB calls 31.32 BB and is all-in

Turn: (107.31 BB, 2 players) K

River: (107.31 BB, 2 players) 3



H8: good fold, right? Couldn't find any bluffs, and even though I blocked his straights, meh, he has so many 2-pairs in there too

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 183.54 BB
SB: 43.16 BB
Hero (BB): 105.16 BB
UTG: 162.91 BB
MP: 122.44 BB
CO: 72.93 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T A

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, BTN calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (20.5 BB, 2 players) 9 4 K
Hero bets 6.45 BB, BTN calls 6.45 BB

Turn: (33.4 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 21.14 BB, BTN calls 21.14 BB

River: (75.67 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, BTN bets 145.96 BB and is all-in, fold

BTN wins 74.3 BB


H9: vs straightforward nitty player, good fold? bet check bet lines are so underbluffed, but with the 33% we don't need to be good a lot. Do you think villain could be valuebetting TT/99? Thought that villain could be checking a lot of AK OTT too

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 49.88 BB
SB: 106.78 BB
BB: 224.92 BB
UTG: 228.57 BB
MP: 148.98 BB
Hero (CO): 114.63 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J J

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, SB raises to 10 BB, fold, Hero calls 7.68 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) 3 6 8
SB bets 10.38 BB, Hero calls 10.38 BB

Turn: (41.75 BB, 2 players) K
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (41.75 BB, 2 players) 5
SB bets 14.13 BB, fold

SB wins 40.38 BB


Bonus hands

I wasn't going to bother but there was too much awful there to resist.


H1. Another example of you turning a trivial turn fold, into stupidly bluffing off your stack into an uncapped range. big lolz.


H2. Another example of being totally clueless. I thought you study gto? fold weaker aces and call stronger ones. Simple. Instead you get owned by the whale. lolz.


How about folding the f%#ken flop? Christ, sb leads bb calls and you decide to raise with air? That is so ******ed its almost hard to comprehend, you then call the 3bet? It seems your micro brain can't handle being donked and you go insane.

H4. I think the play by the reg is awful, so no surprise you have him tagged as a good reg. Your jam vs his range is pretty bad also.


H5. A great example of how unbalanced you are. You would jam your stupid bluffs there but don't jam the nuts. Pathetic.

H6. Your repping the flush then do that crappy river bet sizing? If your going to bluff then do it right and jam, as played awful. Flop is a xc or bet, xr is crap with that hand.


H8. Flat pre.


Overall. Beyond Awful.

h1 why

H1

You can play it as triple barrel or turn give up. Flop bet is super standard solid bet. Turn I think you just go wrong with calling this handstrenght here it probably loses as its pretty hard to imagine people to have a wide enough bluffing range with that betsize. River you rep air.

Gl

Rapi mah man. Are you trying to punish yourself for running good?

h1. wtfm8

h2. you didn't call the 4bet to stack off vs 0 bluffs. The backdoors add like 4% equity, which isn't enough. You were the one tilted.

h3. floating donk is fine. If you do bluffraise his donk make it smaller, once you get 3bet by an initially polarized range now leaning toward the nutted end of the spectrum realize it's game over.

h4. When in position I dont know why you are just getting it in hoping for a flip when you can play the pot in position and realize more ev on average. You have to call 13ishbb to fight for 51bb. You can improve to the winning hand or pick up outs on almost any turn card

Since you rarely have fold equity. Idk wtf the reg is doing either. You 3bet vs UTG and he should be drawing dead or flipping vs your exact hand LUL. Both you guys were on some 30bb spin n go ish. Atleast your decision is roughly breakeven vs his actual range since obviously hes capable of spew.

H5. when someone full pots into you and they are not a good player they are usually not folding. Tho I can see people calling a bit less if you straight up jam.

h6. You could be barrelling into the nutflush draw or a set. I think this is spew on the flop. If you are checkraising backdkr draws at least make sure its nutted. The king doesnt block any hand except KQs, at least As would block AJ and ATs and AQs Once you pick up equity you are forced to vamo against a fairly strong range. Once he calls turn just accept the facts, at least with As you could overbet turn jam river and villain could find a fold on most rivers.

h7. Villain is 50bb deep seems fine tho idk wf hes doing.

h8. Could be more polarized in bb but I like the barrells and the fold tho

h9. Id put him on JJ-QQ more often than 99-TT but you have to call.

h10. That was some spew you rarely see at 2nl

H1 your incentives are pretty obvious to c/jam and you rep too little for Ax to want to fold, Id imagine its bad to overbluff here, its just too obvious.

H3 seems fine but also folding to bb 3bet seems great

oh I forgot H9. Obviously have to call there. Pathetic fold. I must admit I am being too hard on rapidesh. I actually think he deserves a lot of credit and appreciation for such a positive and inspirational thread, and proving you can still grind it up and win at Poker in 2018 despite being utterly terrible. So credit where credit is due, don't ever say I'm never positive.

every hand look good except hand 1, just do that with a hand like T7, or maybe KsTx

I may also call the JJ river vs 1/3, foldings a bit too exploitable

wouldnt listen to mirages attempt at giving advices, he probably could get coached by you